Chelsea (London)
Chelsea | ||
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Kings Road, Chelsea | ||
Coordinates | 51 ° 29 ′ N , 0 ° 10 ′ W | |
OS National Grid | TQ275775 | |
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Post town | LONDON | |
ZIP code section | SW3 | |
prefix | 020 | |
Part of the country | England | |
region | London | |
London Borough | Kensington and Chelsea | |
British Parliament | Chelsea and Fulham | |
Chelsea is a district in west London . It is located between Sloane Square and the Thames as the southern border. The district is part of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea . The football club of the same name, Chelsea FC , is based in the Fulham district.
Attractions
In the quarter is the Hospital for retired soldiers Royal Hospital Chelsea . It was built from 1682 to 1692 according to the plans of Christopher Wren . The National Army Museum is in the neighborhood . It was built on the site of the hospital annex built by John Soane in 1809 and destroyed in World War II.
The main street of the King's Road district was laid out in the 17th century by King Charles II to create a connection to Kew Palace . Until 1830, it was privately owned by the crown.
The King's Road was one in the 1960s and the 1970s to the centers of subculture of hippies and punks . Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood opened the SEX shop there in 1972 , selling punk-style fashion. The scene later moved to other parts of the city, mainly Notting Hill and Camden Town .
Chelsea is the seat of the Chelsea College of Art and Design . The Saatchi Gallery has been based in Chelsea since 2008 .
Known residents
Chelsea is the birthplace of
- Johann Friedrich La Trobe (1769–1845), Baltic German composer
- Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865), writer
- Richard Anthony Proctor (1837-1888), astronomer
- Elizabeth Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland (1921–2019), Perress and non-party politician
- David Puttnam (* 1941), film producer and politician
- Omid Djalili (* 1965), film actor and comedian of Iranian origin
- Eddie Redmayne (* 1982), film and stage actor
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Chelsea was considered a residential area for artists such as Thomas Carlyle , William Holman Hunt , George Meredith , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , John Singer Sargent , Algernon Swinburne , William Turner , James McNeill Whistler and Virginia Woolf . A particularly large number of artists lived on and in the vicinity of Cheyne Walk , where a large number of the houses date from the 18th century.
Well-known Chelsea residents also included Margaret Thatcher (on Flood Street ) and Mick Jagger . The politician William Wilberforce died in Chelsea in 1833.
Other known residents are or were:
- Bryan Adams (born 1959) - singer
- Thomas (1795–1881) and Jane Carlyle (1801–1866) - Thomas Carlyle was a well-known historian of the 19th century, his wife Jane a well-known letter writer.
- Henry James (1843-1916) - writer
- Mark Knopfler (born 1949) - musician
- Bob Marley (1945–1981) - reggae singer
- Kylie Minogue (born 1968) - pop singer
- Neil Tennant (born 1954) - pop singer
- William Orpen (1878–1931) - painter
- Gwyneth Paltrow (born 1972) - actress
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) - writer
- Vivienne Westwood (* 1941) - fashion designer
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) - writer
- Bram Stoker (1847-1912) - writer
- Diana Rigg (born 1938) - actress
- Ken Follett (born 1949) - writer
Also Isadora Duncan lived in this area shortly. After leaving the United States with her family, she decided to start in Chelsea.